Critical Perspectives on Art, Politics and Culture

JUL-AUG 2009

Local

Jo Anne Simon is one of seven candidates running for office in the 33rd City Council District, which runs from Greenpoint-Williamsburg along the Brooklyn waterfront through DUMBO and Brooklyn Heights, then spans Boerum Hill through northern Park Slope.

Art

Art

On the occasion of their bookstores upcoming ten year anniversary, Miles Bellamy and Jonas Kyle, the co-founders and owners of the popular and beloved Spoonbill & Sugartown at 218 Bedford Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, stopped by Art International Radio to talk to Publisher Phong Bui about their life and work.

Poetry

On the occasion of the poets new book, The Importance of Being Iceland, Eileen Myles welcomed fellow poet Jeremy Sigler to her East Village home, where she has been since 1972, to talk about her new work and more.

Music

Its going to be a long, hot summer for Lawrence Butch Morris, who over the next few months will be conducting an Italian symphony orchestra, a funk band, and the Chorus of Poetsall through repeated back-and-forth trips between Europe and New York, while also finishing a book about conduction.

Film

Back when womens liberation was really starting to flex its muscles in the early 1970s, anxious conservatives warned that letting women into mens-only bars and high-paying jobs could only result in the feminization of America.